A Cover Tells a Story

What can be more fun, challenging, and rewarding than being able to create your own DVD and Blu-ray covers? Perhaps the principles applied in making your own DVD and blu-ray covers can be similar with making a book cover design. The work allows you use and explore your imagination and to express individuality. You can either create a personalized cover design or make use of some current DVD media covers, which you can further enhance or modify even depending on preference. Either way, you would still end up feeling like a fulfilled visual artist.

How it began:

Basically, the DVD and blu-ray cover concept evolved from the creation of blu-ray disc. Developed by the Blur-ray Disc Association, Bluray or Blu-ray Disc is defined as an optical disc storage media format. The disc functions as a standard CD or DVD but with high-definition video and higher data storage features. Overall, a smaller wavelength is great because it means more data storage. And with the Blu-ray Disc having a 405 nm wavelength, it can significantly store more data than any DVD format (with 650 nm wavelength).

Having been recently developed, the Blu-ray disc is among the perceived potential replacements for DVD. Having said this, it would be true if it were only based on factors such as reading capacity, estimates usage and mechanics. The Disc has 25 GB capacity (single layer) and 50 GB capacity (dual layer). It uses the blue-violet laser for reading mechanism, which again is of shorter wavelength. Also, the disc can be used mainly for input or recording of high-definition video, PlayStation games, and data storage. Thus, the Blu-ray disc may really be way ahead from other disc storage media available.

Blu-ray Disc developer:

The Blu-ray Disc Association consists of companies that represent computer hardware, consumer electronics, and motion picture production. Apparently, the standard Blue-ray Disc entails several patents from these constituent companies. A joint licensing agreement has been finalized just last March of 2007. And a more recent development is release of more 450 Blu-ray Disc titles in United States and Japan last 19 Feb 2008.

High quality covers matter:

Presentation does matter. This can be true for most people particularly those who are deeply keen to collecting film or game videos. It is true, DVD and Blu-ray covers can say a whole lot about the over quality of the movie.g., special features, capabilities). It is not surprising how poor presentation can instantly affect consumer's buying preference and decision.

Specifically, Blu-ray and DVD covers are purposely created or produced at the highest quality possible. Even the biggest movie producing companies and studios (e.g., Warner Brothers, Walt Disney, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Paramount, Sony etc.) have begun distributing movie copies in Blu-ray format, and so it goes with the cover. Also, there are even specific web sites that offer covering and labels for Blu-ray and DVD cases. So either you make your own or have others make it for you. In any case you can rest easy that it will produce a high quality output.